Group Wanna One took a year and a half back from the hottest days. While 11 members return to their respective agencies and prepare for Act 2, the three members' moves that announced the transformation of actors as their first activity attract attention.
Wanna One, who made her debut in the music industry in 2017 with 11 final debuts in Mnet Produce 101 Season 2, has become a hot icon in the music industry at once, creating hits such as Energistic, Boomerang, Beautiful and Spring Wind.
Wanna One, who originally made his debut as a project group, has expired in December due to the hot love and interest of fans and the public, and has attracted the attention of various year-end awards ceremony. For three days from the 24th, Wanna One held the last concert Therefore, and gave a tearful farewell to fans.
The 11 members who left Wanna One's fence returned to their respective agencies and foreshadowed various readerships. Among them, Ong Sung-woo, Lai Kuan-lin, and Yoon Ji-sung are choosing actor activities as their first step after independence and raising expectations for a new transformation.
First, Ong Sung-woo recently announced the selection of a male protagonist for JTBC's new monthly drama 'The Eighteen Moments'. Ong Sung-woo, who has been building solid acting skills by appearing in short films The Voice is OK before his debut in Wanna One, has gained prominence as an actor, playing the main characters in the group's activities, including Heo Gak's Fool's Ya and Wanna One's 'Beautiful' music video. This is why more expectations are gathered for the full-fledged actor's action.
Ong Sung-woo plays the role of Choi Jun Woo, an eighteen-year-old boy who became a habit of loneliness in the emotional youth '18 Moments'. Choi Jun Woo is a person who has no empathy and looks cold, but in fact has a strange and cute anti-war charm. After the casting news was announced, Ong Sung-woo said, "I am anxious and looking forward to a new start," and said, "I will work on my work with a sincere heart because it was a long dream, not a simple Top Model." Ong Sung-woo's new Top Model will be released through broadcasting in the first half of this year.
Lai Kuan-lin, who was loved as the youngest of Wanna One, also walks on a full-fledged readership starting with his actor debut. Lai Kuan-lin, a Taiwanese native, opens the door to her first solo career in China.
Finally, the member who informed the actor activity was Yoon Ji-sung. Unlike Ong Sung-woo and Lai Kuan-lin, who announced their debut as an actor through drama, Yoon Ji-sung is the first musical to be a Top Model from Wanna One.
The first work that Yoon Ji-sung made the Top Model in musicals was 'the days'. The Days is a jukebox musical composed of famous songs by the late Kim Kwang-seok, which deals with the mysterious events of the Day that disappeared 20 years ago, crossing past and present in the background of the Cheong Wa Dae security office. In this work, Yoon Ji-sung will be divided into the role of 'Moo Young', a free soul with leisure and wit and a motive for 'suspension'. Yoon Ji-sung has gathered the expectation of fans by foreseeing breathing with talented musical senior actors such as Yoo Jun-sang, Lee Pil-mo and Um Ki-jun.
This expectation proved to be a ticket power called 'all-out sales'. “I’m nervous and excited to be able to perform with seniors like Gira-sung in a really good musical, and I’m new to my feelings,” said Yoon Ji-sung, who had a dream of standing on the musical stage if I had a chance one day, but I had a dream of being on the musical stage. I didn't know the opportunity would come so quickly. I hope that I will be on stage with a new look that I have not shown in the meantime as much as my precious opportunity has come. "
Ong Sung-woo, Lai Kuan-lin, and Yoon Ji-sung, who foresaw a brilliant leap as an actor, not a singer, are going to burst their potential with another charm as an idol. The three people in front of the new starting line will be once again on the minds of the public in what way, and attention is paid to their activities in the first half of this year.